How Do You Grow Eggplant In Nevada?
Eggplants, especially the Japanese eggplant, are some of the easiest vegetables to grow in Nevada. Versatile and delicious, they should be included in your garden if you want something that will grow without much work. Prepare your garden. Pull all weeds, rake all large rocks and work in nutrient rich soil and manure. Vegetables need a fertile place in which to grow. Also, make sure your garden gets an equal amount of sun and shade. Eggplants should be kept shaded at least part of the time. Buy the eggplants in early spring. Japanese eggplants are easier to find than normal eggplants. They taste the same; the only difference is that the Japanese eggplant is long and slender while the regular eggplant is rounder. Plant them after the last frost, as the weather starts to get warmer. Plant them about 1 or 2 feet apart from each other. The plants don’t get very big. Prune the buds. Any of the flowers growing on the new plants should be pinched off. The plants need to take root before they
